How to find the vml ID of a LUN on vSphere

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

This article has the steps to find the vml ID of a LUN.

Environment

VMware vSphere (All versions).

Resolution

• If not known yet from an internal report, determine the naa/eui ID of the LUN by navigating to "Host > Configure > Storage devices" and selecting the target LUN for which the vml ID is needed.
• Run the command below:

esxcli storage core device list -d naa.####/eui.#####

• Find the line with "Other UIDs:", which will contain the vml ID of the LUN on that host, as in the example below:

esxcli storage core device list -d naa.60#########################

naa.60#########################
Display Name: NETAPP Fibre Channel Disk (naa.60#########################)
Has Settable Display Name: true
Size: 1048593
Device Type: Direct-Access
Multipath Plugin: NMP
Devfs Path: /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.60#########################
Vendor: NETAPP
Model: LUN
Revision: 7330
SCSI Level: 4
Is Pseudo: false
Status: off
Is RDM Capable: true
Is Local: false
Is Removable: false
Is SSD: false
Is Offline: false
Is Perennially Reserved: false
Thin Provisioning Status: yes
Attached Filters:
VAAI Status: unknown
Other UIDs: vml.020000000060a#####################################################

Additional Information

Correlating VML ID with disk ID